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bleuir
bleuir
French
Verb
bleuir
- (transitive) to make blue, turn blue
- (intransitive) to turn blue, go blue
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of bleuir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | bleuir | avoir bleui | |||||
| gerund | en bleuissant | en ayant bleui | |||||
| present participle | bleuissant /blœ.i.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | bleui /blœ.i/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bleuis /blœ.i/ |
bleuis /blœ.i/ |
bleuit /blœ.i/ |
bleuissons /blœ.i.sɔ̃/ |
bleuissez /blœ.i.se/ |
bleuissent /blœ.is/ |
| imperfect | bleuissais /blœ.i.sɛ/ |
bleuissais /blœ.i.sɛ/ |
bleuissait /blœ.i.sɛ/ |
bleuissions /blœ.i.sjɔ̃/ |
bleuissiez /blœ.i.sje/ |
bleuissaient /blœ.i.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | bleuis /blœ.i/ |
bleuis /blœ.i/ |
bleuit /blœ.i/ |
bleuîmes /blœ.im/ |
bleuîtes /blœ.it/ |
bleuirent /blœ.iʁ/ |
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| future | bleuirai /blœ.i.ʁe/ |
bleuiras /blœ.i.ʁa/ |
bleuira /blœ.i.ʁa/ |
bleuirons /blœ.i.ʁɔ̃/ |
bleuirez /blœ.i.ʁe/ |
bleuiront /blœ.i.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | bleuirais /blœ.i.ʁɛ/ |
bleuirais /blœ.i.ʁɛ/ |
bleuirait /blœ.i.ʁɛ/ |
bleuirions /blœ.i.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bleuiriez /blœ.i.ʁje/ |
bleuiraient /blœ.i.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bleuisse /blœ.is/ |
bleuisses /blœ.is/ |
bleuisse /blœ.is/ |
bleuissions /blœ.i.sjɔ̃/ |
bleuissiez /blœ.i.sje/ |
bleuissent /blœ.is/ |
| imperfect1 |
bleuisse /blœ.is/ |
bleuisses /blœ.is/ |
bleuît /blœ.i/ |
bleuissions /blœ.i.sjɔ̃/ |
bleuissiez /blœ.i.sje/ |
bleuissent /blœ.is/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | bleuis /blœ.i/ |
— | bleuissons /blœ.i.sɔ̃/ |
bleuissez /blœ.i.se/ |
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